The Greatness Game

[Love]

Well, Love, going out of your way to tell people you find their compliments disingenuous when you could have just stayed silent on the matter definitely comes across as spiteful. I don't think your tone was misinterpreted so much as you failed to properly convey your point sans malice.

I did not intend to come across spiteful. Obviously I barely know Ivy as a person, she has not done anything wrong to me, so why would I be spiteful towards her? I see it as being assertive and direct. I simply felt like politely expressing an opinion (like every other member on this forum does, and I am VERY much more polite than some of the members) after certain observations I made. It was not an attack on her character or anything else; there was a very concentrated focus on the compliments, that's all, and I did not expect it to be completely blown of proportion like this.

[Faith No More]

It's hard to gauge emotions through plain text, and the context of your post was that you went out of your way to be critical of a good-natured thread. Can you not see how that could be interpreted as malicious?

[Fruity]

(It's difficult to read into the tone of text, so I'll point out my tone is of peace.)

Love, you are right. You don't know me. I don't know you. If you knew me you would know that it would be ridiculous to not be genuine any day, but so much more here where I wouldn't get anything out of being fake. Really. What on earth could I get? A raise? A promotion? Candy?

So, since I don't know you, and even though you don't care, I'll consider that you might very well be a great person yourself and in time I will have many reasons to point it out.

See here. At work on Mondays we have these really cool team building meetings (The greatness game). We all spend time just saying nice thing about each other, because the week might get a little hectic and it is nice to get some energy boost from peers. It's nice. I thought I'd share here.

[Love]

It's hard to gauge emotions through plain text, and the context of was that you went out of your way to be critical of a good-natured thread. Can you not see how that could be interpreted as malicious?

Certainly. Obviously some people viewed my comments as malicious. I simply viewed this thread as "open" like any other thread.

Love, you are right. You don't know me. I don't know you. If you knew me you would know that it would be ridiculous to not be genuine any day, but so much more here where I wouldn't get anything out of being fake. Really. What on earth could I get? A raise? A promotion? Candy?

So, since I don't know you, and even though you don't care, I'll consider that you might very well be a great person yourself and in time I will have many reasons to point it out.

Ivy, you have now convinced me that my interpretation of your compliments was incorrect; therefore, I apologise for accusing you of being disingenuous and false. I agree with Kayenneh's observation about the cultural differences between England and USA, which is something I did not take into consideration. A lot of English people, including myself, are very skeptical about such things, which is a poor state of affairs really.

I would be happy for the moderators to delete my replies from this thread if required.

[Love]

See here. At work on Mondays we have these really cool team building meetings (The greatness game). We all spend time just saying nice thing about each other, because the week might get a little hectic and it is nice to get some energy boost from peers. It's nice. I thought I'd share here.

That's actually a very good idea, and is not something I have ever experienced professionally. I think people should spend more time saying nice things to each other. I guess I had a very cynical view.

So here goes:

Love, I think you're great because you're great. Only kidding.

Ivy, I think you're great because this is quite a good idea.

[Tonus]

Ivy is the greatest for managing to get flamed by someone called Love.

[Violet]

Then you are sad, pathetic little person. I have yet to see a compliment on these forums which was excessive, over-complimentary or too familiar. I think the compliments doled out here are sincere and, in most cases, well-earned.

You've read my posts, yes? False flattery, misdirection, devil's advocacy, excessiveness incarnate: the lot of it. I'm the Mitt Romney of this forum: ain't nobody know what I really thinking

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For a username like "Love", I've been getting nothing except hate vibes from following her posts.

It's a woman?

I don't believe you. There are no women on the internet.

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Beware of strangers on the net, sure, but still, having a couple of really good friends IRL that I met over the net on other boards, I know that most of the people I admire here I would like to meet someday in person.

I would suggest that when you meet them, you greet them with a couple of shotgun blasts to the noggin.

Save me a load of trouble, won't you?

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Actually, I am not a female. Although I respect your subjective interpretation of my replies, I can assure you that I do not intentionally write my replies in a spiteful manner; you have misinterpreted their tone.

Not a female, but earned 'her' from maelstrom. Conclusion: gotta be a transexual woman. Good to have you here, Love

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It's hard to gauge emotions through plain text, and the context of your post was that you went out of your way to be critical of a good-natured thread. Can you not see how that could be interpreted as malicious?

You know what they say, FNM: Love is blind.

[Fruity]

Thank you, Love.

And you are great because you managed to consider what I had to say and that requires humility.